Mail Archives: djgpp/1999/09/21/16:40:19
I never said it doesn't compress the code. When I said "pack" I mean
compression, e.g. Huffman or whatever method they use. What I meant with "no
more than a packing tool" was that UPX to my knowledge does not do anything else
apart from compression, whilst it could do code optimization. Sorry I was being
confusing :-)
Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> On Sat, 18 Sep 1999, Fred Backman wrote:
>
> > I agree as far as packing an .EXE goes. I don't know how UPX works,
> > but I have a feeling it is no more than a packing tool, e.g. it does
> > not modify any code but "only" removes redundant information and
> > packs everything else.
>
> No, it also compresses the code (and uncompresses it at run time).
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